A BRIT engineer has been strangled to death with his own belt in his driveway after popping down to the pub for a beer.

Retired expat Karl Lauks, 73, was said to be the “life and soul”; of his adoptive town of Tulbagh 70 miles north of Cape Town, in South Africa.

A man in a green Heineken cap sits at a bar holding a Heineken beer.A retired British engineer who settled down in South Africa was ambushed in his car driveway

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